I am a self-taught artist. Quilting has been part of my life
for the past
12
years. My love
of color and texture has prompted me to work with
several types of media: paint, paper and fabric. While I love experimenting
and learning from other media, I always return to fabric.

I create to share my love of color with others and for my own enjoyment.
Each work conveys a profound message, a fleeting memory, or the simple
pleasure of combining colors. My larger pieces may tell an entire story.
My smaller pieces are poems.

My quilts and fabric wall hangings are machine sewn. I use commercial
printed fabrics and fabrics that I have hand-dyed and stamped using hand-carved
stamps. I have recently begun embellishing my fabric pieces with beads.

My art relies primarily on nature for its imagery, with pieces of fabric
isolating something found in nature (a leaf, trees, water, insects, flowers).
These pieces are brought together differently in each work. Some quilts
are given fabric “frames”, others have no borders at all.
Nature cannot be easily contained.

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Tribute
to Billie,
36” x 26”, (2002)

A
tribute to the blues singer Billie Holiday;made from commercial
fabric with thick
stitching for embellishments